Improvement in combination writing instruments



C. M. JOHNSON.

COMBINATION WRITING INSTRUMENTS.

$10,181,179, Patented Aug.15, 1876.

N.F|:TERS, FHQTO-LlTHOGRAFMEE, WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GAMILLUS M. JOHNSON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINATION WRITING INSTRUMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,179, dated August15, 1876; application filed June 2, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OAMILLUs M. J oHNsoN, of New York city, haveinvented an Improved Combination riting Instrument, of which thefollowing is a specification:

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, neat, and convenientimplement which shall combine several of the most commonlyusedinstruments in one and the same article. To this end I form aninstrument in which is combined a pen and pencil, rubber and knife, oreraser, arranged and combined as hereinafter shown, the whole forming asingle implement, as represented in the annexed drawings, in which-Figures 1 and 2 represent the implement in two of its different forms,respectively, as a pen and pencil, with the parts in position for useand Fig. 3 is a view showing thesectionsof the implement separated.

As shown in the drawings, and more par ticularly in Fig. 3, theimplement consists of three sections, of which A is the central section,forming the handle or body of the implement, and which consists of asimple tube, open at each end, and having two or more beads raisedthereupon for ornamental efi'ect, which tube, together with the othersections B O, I-prefer to construct of thin metal plated with nickle orother brilliant and durable metal. Into each end of the tube A thesections B O are adapted to tightly fit, a bead, b 0, being raised atabout the center of each of the sections, forming stops, which restagainst the mouths of the tubeA, and limit the insertion of the sectionstherein.

The section B carries a pen, a, and pencil d, which project,respectively, from either extremity, and either end of the section iscapable of being socketed in the end of the tube A, leaving either penor pencil projecting for use.

The section 0 is provided with a rubber, f, and a blade or knife, g,which project from the respective ends thereof, which, like the formersection, is reversible with respect to the tube so that either end maybe socketed within the tube, leaving the required instrument protrudlng.

The blade is formed, preferably, with two edges, one of which isdesigned for the ordinary uses of a knife-such as pencil-sharpening,nail-cutting, &c.-while the other is adapted for an eraser. Near theconnection of the knife with the section 0, a recess is made in theblade so as to form a sharp-edged hook or claw, k, which is adapted foran envelope-opener, thread-cutter, 850., a groove, z', being formed inthe end of the shank, in line with the hook, through which the corner oredge of the envelope is guided to the cuttinghook, as seen in Fig. 3 andin dotted lines in Fig. l.

The pencil portion of the instrument may be constructed with a tubularshank to receive a short section of a common pencil, as represented inFig. 3; but it is considered preferable to construct this part of theinstrument on the principle of the artists pencil, with screw-point,850., as represented in Fig. 2. I thus combine, in a neat and verycompact manner, a number of the most commonly-used instruments requiredby almost every individual, and essential to the writer, the wholeforming one simple and convenient implement, which, while fully capableat the desk of all the duties of several separate and comparativelyexpensive instruments, is specially adapted for a portable instrument,as, when the sections are so arranged that the pencil and rubber onlyproject, as shown in Fig. 2, the implement can be readily carried in thepocket, a number of necessary instruments being thus always at hand whenrequired.

What I claim as my invention is- A combination writing instrument,composed of a central tubular body,A, open at each end, in combinationwith two removable andreversible end sections, B O, fitting into eachend of the body A, and having their respective extremities provided withpen and pencil, knife and rubber, substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

G. M. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

JAMES R. ADAMS,

CHAS. M. HIGGINS.

